The Amazon Sports Bundling Fallacy

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Former Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos stressed the importance of supporting the Prime ecosystem, and it doesn’t feel like the current C.E.O. Andy Jassy will move to undermine it. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Julia Alexander
January 11, 2023

For generations, the marriage of sports and media has helped define emerging distribution platforms. The long, slow hum of baseball made it a natural for the rise of radio in the U.S. football, whose line of scrimmage could easily be encapsulated in one moving image, was perfect for television. Its stop and start pace was also a great fit for advertising.